144 Quotes by Joan Baez

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people’s music, which I’ve done for years. But still, it’d be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.

There’s a consensus out that it’s OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

Twelve years later, when I finally met and became friends with Sara, we talked for hours about those days when the Original Vagabond was two-timing us. I told Sara that I’d never found Bob to be much at giving gifts, but that he had once bought me a green corduroy coat, and had told me to keep a lovely blue nightgown from the Woodstock house. “Oh!” said Sara, “that’s where it went!

That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.

I’ve never had a humble opinion. If you’ve got an opinion, why be humble about it?

I don’t think of myself as a symbol of the sixties, but I do think of myself as a symbol of following through on your beliefs.

You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die or when. But you can decide how you’re going to live now.

God respects me when I work. He loves me when I sing. Tagore.

Some people don’t even notice. “Oh, you sound exactly like you did!” And I say, “OK, if that’s what you want to believe, that’s fine.”